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thipphus parallelas : Lumphanan, July 15th-31st (K. J. M.) ; 

 Beer, July 27th (G. T. Lyle) ; Hengistbury Head, Hants, August 

 10th (W. J. L.), and Yarmouth. Isle of Wight, August 11th 

 (W. J. L.) On September 4th I visited Silverstream Bog, in 

 the New Forest, for Mecostethus grossus. They were not much 

 in evidence, although there was a good amount of sunshine ; but 

 the wind was cool. Some six or eight were seen and five were 

 captured — four males and one female. A male and a female, kept 

 alive, were taken to Kingston-on-Thames on September 10th, 

 and there placed in a large fish -globe containing Sphagnum and 

 a tuft of grass, the top of the globe being covered with muslin. 

 One was noticed eating the grass, holding the blade with its fore- 

 legs in a very "human" manner, in order to bite along the 

 edge. They were seen paired more than once. The male was 

 dead on September 18th, while the female succumbed about 

 September 26th, the latter having eaten much grass a few days 

 before. Tetrix bipunctatus occurred at Box Hill, Surrey, on 

 July 2nd. On August 1st, at a damp spot in a ride of Vinney 

 Piidge Inclosure, in the New Forest, where grass was luxuriant, a 

 number of grasshoppers were found dead, but holding to the 

 grass as if simply resting there. Perhaps all were 0. viridulus. 

 In some cases the abdomens seemed unduly distended, but there 

 was no obvious cause of death. 

 Kino;ston-on-Thames : May, 1911. 



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By Claude Morley, F.Z.S. 



Clearing up synonymy is one of the most beneficial points 

 in the present study of Ichneumonidse and, though difficult and 

 often dangerous in the absence of type-specimens, it is rendered 

 comparatively easy when one or other of specimens described 

 is before one. I have found in the British Museum all the 

 types of the eight kinds shortly diagnosed by T. V. Wollaston in 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. 1858 (ser. iii. vol. i. pp. 21-23). None of them 

 have been mentioned in literature since first brought forward, 

 and they have been nothing but a cumbrance to the mono- 

 grapher. They were doubtless examined by Francis Walker, 

 who has placed many manuscript names upon other insects in 

 the same collection, regarded as new by him. As far as my 

 knowledge extends, the synonymy of those published should stand 

 thus : (1) Picrostigeus (Orthocentrus) anomalus, Holmgr. Sv. Ak. 

 Handl. 1855, p. 351, male = Misoleptus (sic) onaderensis, WoU, 

 I. c. 21, pi. iv. fig. 1. (2) PJiygadeuon vagans, Grav. Ichn. 

 Europ. ii. (1829), 788, female = Hemiteles postica, Woll. I. c. 

 p. 22. (3) Exetastes peregrinus, Woll. I.e. p. 22, pi. iv. fig. 2, 



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